"In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence."

"If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now."

"It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund-raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg."

"A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term."

"Trying is the first step towards failure."

"Moments of extreme terror bring back the gestures of our youth."

"The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative."

"Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier."

"Tipper and Al came to a show the last time we were in Washington. They're nice people, a nice family. We made every effort not to frighten them."

"I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist."

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

"There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others."